My little brother is getting civil partner’d up later this month. They’re doing it with no fanfare (the two of them and two witnesses in a poky little office at 9 o’clock on a Thursday morning.) I asked why they weren’t getting married instead, now that they could. I can’t remember the response, but I think it was along the lines of they just want to be committed to each other in the simplest way possible. They’re going all double-barrelled surname … awww.